Bug#613623: network-console: Cannot start with some locales (eg. sl_SI)

2011-02-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
tags 613623 + confirmed thanks Matej Bažec, le Wed 16 Feb 2011 09:32:27 +0100, a écrit : > The network-console can't be started (can't be selected from the d-i menu) > if the language is set to slovene. I have to choose a different language > first. > Maybe it affects some other locale too.. Con

Re: Bug#613891: Debian on a Mac

2011-02-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Carlos Lisboa, le Fri 18 Feb 2011 00:07:43 +, a écrit : > There's already plenty of documentation about instaling Debian on a > Mac: http://wiki.debian.org/Mac > In this wiki page you can find several links to information related to > this matter. Ok, but shouldn't that be integrated into the

Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg

2011-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fabian Greffrath, le Fri 18 Feb 2011 15:37:38 +0100, a écrit : > Currently the desktop task of tasksel installs the whole xorg package and thus > pulls in a lot of utility packages. I think tasksel should only install the > xserver-xorg package instead. I mean, do we really need twm and xcalc when

Bug#613966: tasksel: desktop task should maybe install xserver-xorg instead of xorg

2011-02-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Fabian Greffrath, le Fri 18 Feb 2011 19:27:00 +0100, a écrit : > Am Freitag, den 18.02.2011, 18:01 +0100 schrieb Samuel Thibault: > > You'll admit that the weight of twm, xcalc etc. is not very high. > > Sure, but I consider them obsolete on a system that has Gnome or Kde >

Bug#613891: installation for Mac

2011-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Sun 20 Feb 2011 14:02:38 +0100, a écrit : > Recent "Macs" can probably be installed with the same set of support > than "PCs". I know, but nothing says so in the installation guide. It just talks about 32/64bit PCs. > So, I really don't see why the documentation should say t

Re: Bug#444017: Please document win32-loader as a possible boot method for i386 and amd64

2011-02-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, le Tue 01 Feb 2011 16:29:58 +0100, a écrit : > I rephrased the whole, so here's a new patch proposal: > > Index: en/boot-installer/x86.xml > === > --- en/boot-installer/x86.xml (révision 66346) > +++ en

Re: Touchscreen support in d-i

2011-02-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thibaut Girka, le Tue 22 Feb 2011 22:30:15 +0100, a écrit : > > I mean you can fetch it dynamically from the X server, and automatically > > display a keyboard appropriately. > > I'm not sure how it works. > We need some really special keyboard, not the geometry of a real > keyboard. Ok, then you

Bug#614127: confirmed on allmachines: painfull

2011-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Thu 24 Feb 2011 07:28:18 +0200, a écrit : > True. Other people have complained about this too. Unfortunately I > don't know a reliable way to test whether we are on the console or in X > and it is generally dangerous to reconfigure the console if X is active. Maybe dpkg-reco

Bug#614127: confirmed on allmachines: painfull

2011-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Otavio Salvador, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 13:01:59 +, a écrit : > if pidof X > /dev/null; then > echo "X is running" > else > echo "X isn't running" > fi Errr, surely not :) What Anton wants is to know whether X is currently at the front or not. And you can't rely on DISPLAY being set (sinc

Bug#614127: confirmed on allmachines: painfull

2011-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Cristau, le Sat 26 Feb 2011 01:18:27 +0100, a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 01:15:33 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Julien Cristau, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 18:44:22 +0100, a écrit : > > > Why "at best"? It sounds like checking whether the active VT

Bug#614127: confirmed on allmachines: painfull

2011-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Julien Cristau, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 18:44:22 +0100, a écrit : > Why "at best"? It sounds like checking whether the active VT is in > KD_TEXT is exactly what's needed here. No, because that may just be an fbterm, still using the normal keyboard processing, and not Xorg. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Bug#595696: Bug#594817: console-setup should configure the width&height of the console

2011-02-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Sun 27 Feb 2011 18:32:28 +0200, a écrit : > On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 09:08:05PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > - if FONTSIZE is not set but SCREEN_WIDTH/HEIGHT is, look for a font > > size that is almost big enough to get only the desired width and

Bug#595696: Bug#594817: console-setup should configure the width&height of the console

2011-02-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Anton Zinoviev, le Mon 28 Feb 2011 18:07:00 +0200, a écrit : > 1a. If framebuffer is used and fbset is installed, then use "fbset -s". > 1b. If framebuffer is used but fbset is not installed, then unknown. > 1c. If framebuffer is not used and /proc/cmdline doesn't contain "vga" > option, then

Bug#616051: no root account after installation

2011-03-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
me, le Tue 01 Mar 2011 22:55:16 -0800, a écrit : > Also, when I logout of "GNOME" I can only turn off the machine and when I turn > on the machine I can only log into GNOME.  The only way to get a command line > is to open a "terminal" within GNOME.  I don't know if this is normal or not > as > I

Re: Touchscreen support in d-i

2011-03-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cyril Brulebois, le Thu 03 Mar 2011 18:23:54 +0100, a écrit : > As for the name, xvkbd being already taken, maybe osk for on screen > keyboard? But then, googling it up will lead to http://www.osk.com/ I believe the name should clearly say that it's meant for touchscreens. Else you'll get mixed wi

Bug#617990: debian-installer: keyboard detection fails and no config option is offered

2011-03-13 Thread Samuel Thibault
reassign 617990 console-setup thanks david b, le Sun 13 Mar 2011 17:10:57 +1100, a écrit : > If you have a dvorak plugged in and you boot the kfreebsd debian amd64 or > i386 installer from cd1 (or the net-install) the installer > does not pick up on the fact that I am using a dvorak keyboard. The

Bug#420818: About #420818: console-setup: keymapper/detect-keyboard integration

2011-03-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Colin Watson, le Wed 16 Mar 2011 16:42:59 +, a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 06:29:01PM +0200, Anton Zinoviev wrote: > > On 24 Apr 2007 you reported: > > > The attached patch makes use of the keymapper package (written by > > > Matthias Urlichs, now maintained by me) to generate a decision

Re: Fwd: Igor Ljubuncic calls Debian squeeze "not good" at OS News

2011-03-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Miguel Figueiredo, le Fri 18 Mar 2011 08:25:21 +, a écrit : > Ljubuncic's negative conclusion is mainly based on two facts: > 2nd, the installation is not beginner-friendly, has too many options, I really don't buy these. Unless he entered the expert mode, there are really few configuration op

Bug#618915: tasksel: Should provide an easy way to choose the selected desktop environment

2011-03-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
s. tasksel suggests no packages. -- debconf information: tasksel/title: tasksel/desktop: gnome tasksel/first: Laptop, Standard system tasksel/tasks: Print server, Mail server, SSH server, Laptop -- Samuel Thibault void packerFlushTheToiletFirstThingInTheMorning( void* arg ) -+- chr

Re: Bits from the Debian Installer Team

2011-03-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Tue 29 Mar 2011 07:05:35 +0200, a écrit : > I think that help in the maintenance of the Installation Guide would > be deeply appreciated. [...] > From your fair description of what you can bring in, Francis, I think > this fits you well... I was thinking about the same indeed

Re: up to date links

2011-03-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
Francis B. Roderick, le Wed 30 Mar 2011 13:52:53 -0500, a écrit : > Any advice as to the best way to handle these kind of issues, open e-mail? > ...direct to the attention of a specific individual? file a bug report..etc? > Direction would be appreciated. Please file a bug report against the inst

Bug#621400: debian-installer: keymap alias

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matt Taggart, le Wed 06 Apr 2011 16:15:52 -0700, a écrit : > I would like a kernel command line alias named "keymap" that means the same > as "console-keymaps-at/keymap". In particular this one (AFAIK) has to be > specified when using preseeding since this question gets asked before the > presee

Debian Installer Keyboard choices

2011-04-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I've gone through all the keyboard layouts that we should support at installation time since we have enabled translations for the corresponding languages in localechooser, I end up with the following list of addition: Albanian Arabic Asturian Bengali Bhutanese Bosnian - Herzegovinian Catal

Re: Debian Installer Keyboard choices

2011-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justin B Rye, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 01:45:48 +0100, a écrit : > > Irish > > (I'm surprised Irish needs its own keyboard layout...) It adds dotted consonants. > > Northern Norwegian > > Are you sure you mean "Northern"? The two standard forms of > Norwegian - Nynorsk and Bokmål - are split east/we

Re: Debian Installer Keyboard choices

2011-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 06:55:47 +0200, a écrit : > > Northern Norwegian > > Should be "Norwegian Nynorsk" if that keymap is really aimed for > "nn". Beware, this could also be a keymap suited for Northern Sami. > > Hence CC'ing Petter as the moral authority for everything that's >

hurd-i386 udeb support

2011-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: xorg-server Version: 1.10.0.902-1 Hello, Cyril Brulebois, le Mon 04 Apr 2011 03:42:25 +0200, a écrit : > On the hurd-* side, there's no udeb for the server yet, but tested > patches to add one would be welcome. The trivial (attached) patch works fine, thanks! Samuel diff -ur xorg-serve

Re: Debian Installer Keyboard choices

2011-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 15:45:48 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Christian PERRIER, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 06:55:47 +0200, a écrit : > >> > Northern Norwegian > >> > >> Should be "Norwegian Nynorsk" if that keymap is really

Bug#621400: debian-installer: keymap alias

2011-04-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Mon 11 Apr 2011 06:43:15 +0200, a écrit : > But isn't console-setup using the console-keymaps-at/keymap value if > already set? Actually it uses debian-installer/keymap. > Anyway, even if we completely drop console-data udeb, we > can still keep a keymap alias, which we'll b

Re: kernel panic on startup

2011-04-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pedro Larroy, le Wed 27 Apr 2011 15:18:42 +0200, a écrit : > It's very easy to reproduce, even with virtualbox, As well as in kvm: [0.132000] NMI watchdog disabled for cpu0: unable to create perf event: -2 [0.529760] init[1]: segfault at ip sp 7fff

Re: installation manual for USB stick is outdated

2011-04-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Pedro Larroy, le Wed 27 Apr 2011 17:18:40 +0200, a écrit : > I observed that the scsi disk is not detected even after modprobing > usb-storage inside the debian installer shell. That's most probably the issue here. Is your USB host detected, at least? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Bug#624449: installation-reports: netinst amd64-i386 iso does install i386 instead of amd64

2011-04-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sebastian Bremicker, le Thu 28 Apr 2011 16:06:38 +0200, a écrit : > I put the ISO on an USB stick using unetbootin. After running a flawless > installation routine I had to discover that I got i386 instead of amd64 > although the image should have been able to install both flavours. Had you chosen

Software speech support in d-i

2011-05-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Alsa maintainers are about to add alsa udebs for sound support in d-i, so I can upload espeakup to get software speech support in d-i. Please answer d-r people to let them through. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Bug#620881: Acknowledgement (installation-guide: MAKEDEV script absence)

2011-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Tue 05 Apr 2011 18:14:06 +0200, a écrit : > Quoting João Carneiro (baptista.carne...@gmail.com): > > i actually found later that the makedev package was missing, so this bug > > should be reassigned to debootstrap. > > > Not really. debootstrap installs the base system and m

Bug#625215: keyboard-configuration: configuration not applied on Linux console

2011-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Cédric Boutillier, le Tue 03 May 2011 22:47:57 +0200, a écrit : > At reboot, I get an error message when the keymap and console are > supposed to be initialized: > > Bad number of antecedents at /usr/bin/ckbcomp line 3078, line 372. This looks like #614127, please try to remove line 372 of /us

Bug#625215: keyboard-configuration: configuration not applied on Linux console

2011-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
block 625215 by 614127 thanks Cédric Boutillier, le Wed 04 May 2011 10:56:56 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 09:53:11AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > This looks like #614127, please try to remove line 372 of > > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base, that is: > > &

Bug#620881: Acknowledgement (installation-guide: MAKEDEV script absence)

2011-05-04 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Tue 03 May 2011 06:53:53 +0200, a écrit : > Quoting Samuel Thibault (sthiba...@debian.org): > > > What should be done instead? FTR, what's in IG is currently > > > > “D.3.4.1. Create device files > > > > At this point /dev/ only

Bug#625974: grub installer should remind which partition Debian's / was installed on

2011-05-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: installation-report Severity: wishlist >From #debian-boot. A user had windows already installed on the 1st hdd, and used d-i to install Debian on the 2nd hdd. When the question about where grub should be installed, he took the default "sda" while he actually wanted to install it on the 2n

Bug#626025: console-setup: FTBFS: Bad number of antecedents at ./ckbcomp line 3078, line 372.

2011-05-08 Thread Samuel Thibault
block 626025 by 614550 thanks Daniel Schepler, le Sat 07 May 2011 20:02:42 -0700, a écrit : > Bad number of antecedents at ./ckbcomp line 3078, line 372. Although not the same symptom, it's the same bug as #625215. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Bug#625974: grub installer should remind which partition Debian's / was installed on

2011-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
reassign 625974 grub-installer thanks Miguel Figueiredo, le Mon 09 May 2011 21:15:42 +0100, a écrit : > On Saturday 07 May 2011 14:30:46 Samuel Thibault wrote: > > When the question > > about where grub should be installed, he took the default "sda" while > > he a

Software speech synthesis in d-i

2011-05-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Software speech synthesis is almost there in d-i. I'm just waiting for portaudio19 to fix a small bug, and then with rootskel and linux-kernel-di-i386-2.6 uploads I'll be able to upload espeakup-udeb and make use of it in d-i. Now the question is: how to let the user select it? I've attac

Re: Software speech synthesis in d-i

2011-05-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Wed 11 May 2011 07:41:58 +0200, a écrit : > > I've attached an example of what I plan to commit: > > That's an example, right? Only activating in amd64 GTK netboot is just > because this is an example, I guess. Yes. I plan to do the same for cdrom/hd-media too and on i386 to

Re: Software speech synthesis in d-i

2011-05-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ian Campbell, le Wed 11 May 2011 10:34:27 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 10:06 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Christian PERRIER, le Wed 11 May 2011 07:41:58 +0200, a écrit : > > > We could maybe improve the wording to make it clearer than "Speech > > &g

Bug#626793: installation-reports: selected keyboard layout not used during early boot of real system

2011-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sune Vuorela, le Sun 15 May 2011 12:36:34 +0200, a écrit : > on boots of the machine, I need to enter the passphrase using qwerty keyboard > layout in order to get access to my root filesystem. Mmm, did it use to work in previous versions of Debian? The problem is most probably not about transfer

Re: Bug#626793: installation-reports: selected keyboard layout not used during early boot of real system

2011-05-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sune Vuorela, le Sun 15 May 2011 13:09:28 +0200, a écrit : > On Sunday 15 May 2011 13:06:13 Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Sune Vuorela, le Sun 15 May 2011 12:36:34 +0200, a écrit : > > > on boots of the machine, I need to enter the passphrase using qwerty > > > keyboard la

Re: Bug#626793: installation-reports: selected keyboard layout not used during early boot of real system

2011-05-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Sune Vuorela, le Tue 17 May 2011 00:54:42 +0200, a écrit : > On Sunday 15 May 2011 13:55:29 Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Sune Vuorela, le Sun 15 May 2011 13:09:28 +0200, a écrit : > > > On Sunday 15 May 2011 13:06:13 Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > > Sune Vuorela, le Sun

Bug#627320: console-setup: Provide Dvorak with FR and ES accents

2011-05-19 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello Boris ! Boris Daix, le Wed 18 May 2011 09:46:58 +0200, a écrit : > console-data provides a keymap that does not seem to be available with > console-setup: Dvorak with French and Spanish accents > (pc-dvorak-latin1.kmap). It also seems that console-data will soon > disappear, see Bug#626680.

Bug#628084: cdebconf: tasksel debconf does not start in d-i

2011-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
rary with i18n - cdebconf recommends no packages. Versions of packages cdebconf suggests: pn cdebconf-gtk (no description available) -- no debconf information -- Samuel Thibault r: et la marmotte, elle écrit un papier IPDPS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-r

Re: Bug#596596: G-I for GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-05-31 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Robert Millan, le Tue 31 May 2011 15:47:38 +0200, a écrit : > None of the blockers for this bug exist anymore. Is there any objection to > the > proposed patch? Please have a look: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=debian-installer.diff;att=1;bug=596596 Mm

Please unblock bogl

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thanks, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110611195933.gx22...@const.famille.thibault.fr

Bug#630179: anna: Use uts.version rather than uts.release on hurd-any

2011-06-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
7;testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.39 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel Thibault Mora

Bug#630477: Split localechooser in language then country to get speech synthesis right

2011-06-14 Thread Samuel Thibault
F-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel Thibault N: beep beep Miam miam? y: ++ a: kill -MIAM -1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...

Bug#630575: Norwegian Dvorak not available in installer list of keyboard layouts

2011-06-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
tags 630575 + wontfix thanks Marius Kotsbak, le Wed 15 Jun 2011 13:16:57 +0200, a écrit : > Only Norwegian qwerty and USA Dvorak layout is in the list. Yes, we want to limit the profusion of choice to keyboards which actually exist. US dvorak is questionable already. You can still run dpkg-recon

Re: Bug#630477: Split localechooser in language then country to get speech synthesis right

2011-06-15 Thread Samuel Thibault
Christian PERRIER, le Wed 15 Jun 2011 07:25:28 +0200, a écrit : > I suggest other ways to be explored such as introducing some changes > in localechooser script to switch voice after the language is chosen. Sure, fine, it just binds packages a bit more. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debia

Re: Bug#628998: RM: genext2fs -- RoQA; orphaned, low popcon

2011-06-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alexander Reichle-Schmehl, le Fri 17 Jun 2011 13:21:10 +0200, a écrit : > Coul you please take a look at it, if the package is necassary, or if > you would like to adopt it? It is necessary to be able to build ext2 images without being root, yes. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
ores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel Thibault Pour un p�re, autant mourir que de faire plein de calculs et pas s'occuper de son fils -+- y sur #ens-mim - sombres histoires de zombies -

Re: Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 11 Apr 2010 22:58:39 +0200, a écrit : > Squeeze apparently needs vga=0 in addition to fb=false, else the kernel > switches to graphical mode very early. That being said, it could actually been considered as a regression, since fb=false used to be enough. Samuel

Debian installer shortcuts?

2010-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I'm having a look at the debian installer documentation atm, and I'd like to precisely document the various keypresses needed to enable the accessibility parts of the debian installer. I have no problem with finding out information on x86 as I have a lot of x86 boxes. I however do not have

Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ah, sorry, I thought that what follows would have been independent from this bugreport but actually it's not. The help menu is in textmode and can be used to type boot parameters etc., so let's document that too. Samuel Index: en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml ==

Re: Bug#577461: installation-guide: Updates to textmode activation

2010-04-11 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Mon 12 Apr 2010 00:39:57 +0200, a écrit : > I've left out the virtualization bits as I don't think they belong in > a section about accessibility and disabling framebuffer in general is > already also documented in the general "boot parameters" section. That is true, but knowing that

Re: Bug#579167: tasksel: is it really necessary to install gnome-accessibility on each and every system?

2010-04-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, In short: yes. This precise matter has been discussed in bug #471410 Fabian Greffrath, le Sun 25 Apr 2010 22:57:34 +0200, a écrit : > Hi, one of the first things that I do on each freshly installed Debian > desktop > system is deinstalling the gnome-accessibility packages, i.e. dasher,

Re: Bug#579167: tasksel: is it really necessary to install gnome-accessibility on each and every system?

2010-04-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sun 25 Apr 2010 23:34:05 +0200, a écrit : > Fabian Greffrath, le Sun 25 Apr 2010 22:57:34 +0200, a écrit : > > Hi, one of the first things that I do on each freshly installed Debian > > desktop > > system is deinstalling the gnome-accessibility packa

Bug#579954: installation-guide: Add link from accessibility section to boot screen section

2010-05-02 Thread Samuel Thibault
_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel Thibault The nice thing about Windows is - It does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'OK' first. (Arno Schaefer's .sig) Index: en/boot-installer/accessibility.xml

Bug#580508: installation-guide: Fix brltty driver/table code URL

2010-05-06 Thread Samuel Thibault
: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.33 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- Samuel T

Re: extlinux (was: Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2"))

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Bjørn Mork, le Wed 26 May 2010 10:45:49 +0200, a écrit : > Just comparing http://git.kernel.org/?p=boot/syslinux/syslinux.git with > http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/grub/trunk/grub/ should IMHO give more > than enough information to choose extlinux over grub2 I don't understand what you mean her

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Stefan Monnier, le Wed 26 May 2010 14:23:44 -0400, a écrit : > > for much. But I am opposed to the removal of lilo. Both grub-legacy and > > grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of the master boot record > > (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1). In other words they use cylinder 0, head 0, > >

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Frans Pop, le Thu 27 May 2010 01:32:17 +0200, a écrit : > On Thursday 27 May 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Because the question is "where?". The lilo approach is "inside the > > filesystem", which can break. The grub approach is "right after MBR",

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Paul Vojta, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:47:14 +, a écrit : > In article , > Ferenc Wagner wrote: > > > >Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything > >which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the > >Syslinux and the Grub mailing lists. I suppose it w

Re: lilo removal in squeeze (or, "please test grub2")

2010-05-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Stefan Monnier, le Thu 27 May 2010 00:58:14 -0400, a écrit : > >> > for much. But I am opposed to the removal of lilo. > >> > Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside > >> > of the master boot record (cylinder 0, head 0, sector 1). In other > >> > words they use cylinder

Bug#514464: Bug#514212: console-setup: on UTF-8 console, caps lock is turned into a shift lock

2010-06-21 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Sat 07 Feb 2009 23:04:17 +0100, a écrit : > Cloning the bug as the lock led not showing up is an independant matter > (which depends on kernel support actually). Just for the record: this is currently in the mm tree in the leds-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generi

Re: Progress of Debian Installer 6.0 - Beta1

2010-06-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Otavio Salvador, le Sat 26 Jun 2010 18:43:45 -0300, a écrit : > - ???: check what is missing for full kFreeBSD support BTW, Jeremy is doing great progress with hurd-i386 support: he got an installed system. And he is actively pushing his work upstream, notably the non-linuxism part to bu

Bug#589528: installation-report: hurd-i386 d-i installation successful!

2010-07-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
Package: installation-reports Severity: normal Tags: d-i Hello, This is just to report about a successful d-i installation of the hurd-i386 port using Jeremy Koenig's current image :D -- Package-specific info: Boot method: CD Image version: http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/mini.iso bu

Arabic debconf dialogs

2010-07-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, I was testing arabic support in hurd-i386 d-i, and a couple of glitches showed up (same on Linux), attached as png screenshots, I was wondering whether these are known. The first is about the http proxy url, which doesn't look syntactically correct to me. The second and third are about de

Re: Arabic debconf dialogs

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ossama Khayat, le Tue 27 Jul 2010 05:02:48 -0700, a écrit : > Thank you for sharing this. From what I can see, this is a normal problem we > usually face when combining Arabic/Latin text. > I usually fix this in HTML using a SPAN or DIV with DIR="LTR" for the Latin > text. > > Not sure if we cou

Re: Arabic debconf dialogs

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Tue 27 Jul 2010 15:22:45 +0200, a écrit : > whiptail --yesno 'يجب إدخال معلومات البروكسي بالشكل > ‪"http://[[user][:pa...@]host[:port]/"‬.' 10 50 (also tested in gedit, thus pango). Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.de

Re: Arabic debconf dialogs

2010-07-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ossama Khayat, le Tue 27 Jul 2010 16:46:40 -0700, a écrit : > - Original Message > > > From: Samuel Thibault > [...] > > Yes, it seems to be working: > > > > whiptail --yesno 'يجب إدخال معلومات البروكسي بالشكل > >‪"http://[[user][:pa

Re: what option to use shell-like boot instead ncurses-like interface?

2010-07-28 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Harding, le Wed 28 Jul 2010 13:10:43 +0200, a écrit : > My searches in FAQ didn't hint. Why the FAQ? Just read the boot parameters part of the manual, which talks about DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Arabic debconf dialogs

2010-07-30 Thread Samuel Thibault
On ven, jui 30, 2010 at 02:46:03 -0700, Ossama Khayat wrote: > - Original Message > > > From: Samuel Thibault > [...] > > Err, so it now reads > > > > "يجب إدخال معلومات البروكسي بالشكل " > > "\"http://[[user][:pa...@]host[:po

Bug#586870: partman-base: use a system-specific default filesystem

2010-08-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jeremie Koenig, le Wed 23 Jun 2010 06:53:23 +0200, a écrit : > Currently the default filesystem is ext3 on all systems. However, Hurd > only supports ext2 and kFreeBSD requires ufs as its root filesystem. > The attached patch sets a system-specific default, provided none has > been preseede

Re: Bug#584538: libdebian-installer: problems on Hurd with poll()

2010-08-01 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jérémie Koenig, le Fri 04 Jun 2010 14:41:34 +0200, a écrit : > On Hurd, libdebian-installer gets stuck inside the internal_di_exec() > function. This is caused by the way poll() reports end-of-file, which > cannot be portably relied on. > > The attach patch uses feof() instead of POLLHUP t

Re: Unblock brltty?

2010-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Adam D. Barratt, le Sat 14 Aug 2010 10:09:38 +0100, a écrit : > The icu transition is ready to go, but currently stalled by brllty which > is blocked because of its udeb. > > As I understand it, the udeb does not use icu It doesn't indeed. > so should be safe to unblock in that regard; could we

Bug#586870: partman-base: use a system-specific default filesystem

2010-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremie Koenig, le Wed 11 Aug 2010 23:36:34 +0200, a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 08:42:02PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > > Do we really need to do that at runtime? There is already a code snippet > > doing that a build time in debian/rules (look for DEFAULT_FS), wouldn't > > it be better to

Bug#592690: localechooser: the Hurd console has display level 3 capability

2010-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:00:41 +0200, a écrit : > Samuel, can you handle this? The updated attached patch has the bug > number filled in. Done. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Bug#593212: rootskel: please add Hurd support

2010-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:15:24 +0200, a écrit : > The attached patch adds Hurd versions of the system-dependant files, and > makes other fixes which produce a functional, up-to-date rootskel udeb > on Hurd. These were very straightforward, so I have applied the patch. Thanks,

Bug#592671: partman-target: /target/etc/fstab is not created on Hurd

2010-08-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jeremie Koenig, le Wed 11 Aug 2010 23:24:37 +0200, a écrit : > The following pieces are missing to have /target/etc/fstab created on Hurd: Very straight forward, applied. Thanks, Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: [PATCH 1/7] Fix the generation of pkg-lists/standard-udebs

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:20 +0200, a écrit : > * Add pkg-lists/standard-udebs as a dependency for monolthic images (it is > removed automatically on clean, but was never generated). > > @@ -808,12 +808,14 @@ $(STAMPS)extra-$(targetstring)-stamp: > $(STAMPS)get_udebs-$(ta

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Override $(genext2fs) in config/hurd.cfg

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:21 +0200, a écrit : > In order to be able to override the definition in config/hurd.cfg, the > original > one in Makefile has had to be moved before the file in question is included. I guess this is ok? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-re

Re: [PATCH 3/7] Fine-tune the Hurd configuration

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:22 +0200, a écrit : > * Use mklibs-copy on hurd-i386 for the time being. Commited, as space constraint is not our target on short and medium hurd-i386 term. > * Use the newer "module --nounzip" grub command to load the gzipped initrd, > and let t

Re: [PATCH 4/7] Add /lib/ld.so and /servers/exec to Hurd initrd's.

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:23 +0200, a écrit : > The /lib/ld.so symlink is what Hurd binaries use, and points to ld.so.1. > The empty /servers/exec file is necessary at boot time, to register the exec > server started by Mach as a multiboot module. Commited. Thanks, Samuel -- To

Re: [PATCH 5/7] Include a BDF font on Hurd images.

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:24 +0200, a écrit : > The BGF font used by bogl-bterm is built from the reduced BDF font, but > the Hurd console uses BDF fonts directly. > > In order to be able to build both kinds, the unifont.bdf target is split > into two stages (full bdf -> reduced bdf

Re: [PATCH 4/7] Add /lib/ld.so and /servers/exec to Hurd initrd's.

2010-08-17 Thread Samuel Thibault
Steve Langasek, le Tue 17 Aug 2010 16:32:17 -0700, a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:39:18AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:23 +0200, a écrit : > > > The /lib/ld.so symlink is what Hurd binaries use, and points to ld.so.1. > &

Re: anna resolver and non-installable packages

2010-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Aurelien Jarno, le Fri 20 Aug 2010 19:55:39 +0200, a écrit : > Given that it is C code built on each architecture, we maybe can only > enable it on Hurd and GNU/kFreeBSD until squeeze is released. I was wondering about this solution for now too. (I guess kfreebsd people won't be too sad not to be

Re: [PATCH 2/7] Override $(genext2fs) in config/hurd.cfg

2010-08-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le Wed 18 Aug 2010 00:14:17 +0200, a écrit : > Jeremie Koenig, le Mon 16 Aug 2010 13:20:21 +0200, a écrit : > > In order to be able to override the definition in config/hurd.cfg, the > > original > > one in Makefile has had to be moved before the file in

Re: Bug#592684: debian-installer-utils: please don't check for /sys on Hurd

2010-08-22 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Jeremie Koenig, le Thu 12 Aug 2010 11:49:22 +0200, a écrit : > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:43:06AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Jeremie Koenig] > > > - if [ ! -d /target/sys ]; then > > > + if [ ! -d /target/sys ] && [ "$(udpkg --print-os)" != hurd ]; then > > > > Would it be bett

Re: Bug#594052: debootstrap: create example /etc/hosts and /etc/fstab?

2010-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Colin Watson, le Mon 23 Aug 2010 12:45:12 +0100, a écrit : > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Mmm, aren't you actually looking for crosshurd? (which should really be called crossdebian nowadays). AIUI, using debootstrap is just meant for chroots & such. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#594089: keyboard-configuration: caps lock keycode problem

2010-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
forcemerge 594089 593742 reassign 594089 linux-2.6 retitle 594089 caps lock keyboard code problem thanks Hello, Please do not submit another report for the same issue, just reassign. Tom, le Mon 23 Aug 2010 11:43:53 -0400, a écrit : > KeyRelease event, serial 105, synthetic NO, window 0x341,

Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, This is some beginning of kFreeBSD/Hurd ports of the Installation manual: basically, it does the following. - Add kfreebsd-i386, kfreebsd-amd64 and hurd-i386 archs (not automatically enabled for now). - Add any-i386, any-amd64, any-x86, kfreebsd-any and hurd-any pseudo-archs - Add an arc

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
I had forgoten to add the arch files, here is a fixed patch to be used instead. Samuel Index: build/entities/common.ent === --- build/entities/common.ent (révision 64519) +++ build/entities/common.ent (copie de travail) @@ -3,7 +3

Re: Some kFreeBSD port of Installation manual

2010-08-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Miguel Figueiredo, le Tue 24 Aug 2010 11:02:15 +0100, a écrit : > On 24-08-2010 01:18, Samuel Thibault wrote: > >+Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a Debian GNU system that replaces the Linux > >+kernel with the kFreeBSD kernel. This port of Debian is currently > >+only being devel

Bug#518808: [PATCH] d-i manual: document booting from DOS

2010-08-26 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, This is a fixed patch with FJP's comments addressed, I believe. Frans Pop, le Fri 06 Nov 2009 04:16:39 +0100, a écrit : > I've looked at the patch from Holger (as that's the most extensive of the > two), but have some problems with it. My comments below. > > Cheers, > FJP > > On Saturday

Bug#594817: console-setup should configure the width&height of the console

2010-08-29 Thread Samuel Thibault
onsole-setup/charmap47: UTF-8 * console-setup/layout: France console-setup/variantcode: oss, * console-setup/model: Genius KB-19e NB console-setup/fontsize-fb: 8 * console-setup/fontsize-fb47: 8 -- Samuel Thibault "...Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ug

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